The mystery shopping thread - part 4

josie

sinderella wrote: »

I'm sooooo not with it. No ipod, no iphone, no laptop, no pdf...no skype, no facebook...

you'll probably all shun me after that confession...

Anyhow can someone clarify TNS allowances please? Without mentioning fees or companies, they have a cafe and a restaurant on. The cafe says you will be reimbursed up to x for the drink. Does this mean if the drink costs half of x you only get half of x? If you but 2 drinks will you get all of the amount known as x? Or can you get all of x if you buy a cake and a drink to the value of x or a bit over x? Sorry if this is cryptic but people have got told off for posting costs on here.

The restaurant says you can get x but if you go over x or if someone else eats with you or you go over x they will only pay your meal. Does that mean if you both eat up to x or just over they won't give you x and will only pay for your part of the meal even if it's much lower than x? I hope not, cos that seems really stingy especially for an evening job when I feel you look conspicuous dining alone anyway. It's not even as if x is that high imho.

anyone still with me?

Daren't go on facebook myself - I spend long enough on MSE as it is without another site to get addicted to, between this one and my Mys Shopping, I really need more of a life, not less of one!! BlackBerry and laptop from work - do love my BlackBerry tho!

Anyway, in response to your question, TNS will only pay you what you spend, so worth your while spending up to their limit. If the place you're talking about happens to be a coffee shop, then just be careful not to order 2 coffees as this will alter the time it takes for you to be served, so better to stock up with muffins, cake etc, mmmm! May as well spend up to what you're allowed and I've not been queried on this. (I did get a little lost with X & Y....)

Gap will pay you the full entitlement whether you spend it all or not, so you can sometimes make a little there, but watch out, as they often say you must spend £5 (stamp shops & convenience stores for example) or £3 at bookies and that is exactly what the reimbursement is.

learning_to_drive

I'm a male!

It's very very quiet for me at the minute, very quiet. GfK have nothing at all, RE the blasted the pharmacy jobs (no to hayfever et al), Gyp, the usual ballaxe, Bare, similar but loads of emails about jobs, when i have a long list for allocation.

I've had a good chunk of audits to do this week, apart from that, very quiet.

Gam

cranezoe wrote: »

Me too. Its driving me mad! :mad: and it keeps losing the page I was on when it crashes.

Thanks, glad it's not just me!

bobthego

johnny_c-l wrote: »

Seriously, if there is a cubicle .... .

Does this mean that men's toilets dont always have cubicles? what about if you need to ...... well, sit down?

bobthego

did anyone get any of the spanish restaurants that were on the alerts thread? I've been out and just seen the post, but none left for me And if it's the Spanish ones that I'm thinking of, I LOVE them - so not fair!! :rotfl:

mdeebee

There's always at least one cublicle.

Just in case there isn't, I would wear a Parka!

hm902

mdeebee wrote: »

There's always at least one cublicle.

Just in case there isn't, I would wear a Parka!

so that when you whip it out and groan "oh my prostate" you can fully complete the old perve look?

mdeebee

No.

The hood comes in handy!

sinderella_2

thnaks for all the responses about x,y,z, glad you're all insane enough to keep up with my madness!

what's the difference between the iphone and a blackberry and a pda then? Which is better for msing?

josie

Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodyrocks
Is there anyone that has done the first wave of *new* restaurants for TNS? It would be great to discuss some things via PM that it has thrown up and see if you have found it same...

Oggyoi wrote: »

Depends what you mean by new ?

Yeah, I don't know of any new ones on TNS - do you know something we don't, or been given some new ones? The only ones I can see have been around a while. A certain chain of pubs and a pizza place and the usual airport crop - otherwise me too ...